. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 40 BULLETIN" 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. to visit the lightship and spend the winter in the immediate vicinity for 24 consecutive years, outliving all the lightship attendants who first fed it. During the last years it arrived October 5, 1890; Octo- ber 12, 1891; September 28, 1892; October 7, 1893; October 2, 1894; and October 2, 1895. It was last seen in spring April 6, 1892; April 7, 1893; April 5, 1894; April 6, 1895, and April 7, 1896—a remarkably uniform date of departure. VEGA GULL. Larus vegx Pal
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 40 BULLETIN" 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. to visit the lightship and spend the winter in the immediate vicinity for 24 consecutive years, outliving all the lightship attendants who first fed it. During the last years it arrived October 5, 1890; Octo- ber 12, 1891; September 28, 1892; October 7, 1893; October 2, 1894; and October 2, 1895. It was last seen in spring April 6, 1892; April 7, 1893; April 5, 1894; April 6, 1895, and April 7, 1896—a remarkably uniform date of departure. VEGA GULL. Larus vegx Palm£n. Knowledge concerning the distribution and migration of the Yega gull is very limited. It was originally described from specimens taken at Pidlin, on the northern coast of Siberia, where the ship Vega had wintered, and it has since become known along that coast from the Taimyr Peninsula east to Bering Strait, on the Liakoff Islands, and at Plover Bay, where it is common, and also along the coasts of Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk. A specimen now in the United States National Museum was taken by Nelson on Diomede Island in Bering Strait, in July, 1881. In migration and winter this gull has been taken on the coasts of Japan and China, south to Formosa and the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. Information concerning the occurrence of the Vega gull on the eastern side of Bering Strait is less satisfactory: Under the name of Larus borealis, Baird notes a specimen from Norton Sound, and the catalogue of the United States National Museum re- cords that it was taken by Bischoff at St. Michael in May; Nelson records a specimen of Larus cacliinnans that was brought to him at St. Michael, October 16, 1880, and thinks that he saw the same species on several other occasions, and that it occurs on the Alaska coast from Kotzebue Sound to the mouth of the Yukon. Both these names, borealis and cachinnans, refer to Lams vegse, whose occurrence on the Alaskan coast was made certain in 1910 by t
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